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Saturday, April 22, 2017

National Geographic: MARS Blu-ray Giveaway

What would it be like to venture and live on Mars? What would you pack and take with you on your journey from Earth to the fourth planet from the sun? Is there a chance one day in the future that in addition to humans celebrating Earth Day there will be colonists also be commemorating Mars Day? National Geographic explores this topic with its six-part television series MARS produced by the Academy Award-winning production duo of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard which merges a sci-fi drama with an educational documentary by interspersing interviews
with real life astronauts, engineers, scientists, and other space
experts within a scripted fictional story about a journey to the Red Planet.

Ask your kids what they think it would be like to be an astronaut on a trek to Mars. Share with them the informative fact sheet and packing list sheets below. What would they pack along with them on a journey to Mars? I'm sure some of their answers will be quite interesting!

Share a picture of your completed inventory list on Instagram and/or Twitter by 11:59 pm on Monday, April 24, 2017 for a chance to win National Geographic: MARS Season 1 on Blu-ray. Tag @Geekdad248 on either Twitter or Instagram and use the hashtag #MarsDay when sharing your picture on social media. One winner will be randomly selected to win the Blu-ray courtesy of National Geographic and Fox Home Entertainment. One entry per social media account with a maximum of 2 entries allowed per household.

The television series tells the story of a multi-national effort
to send astronauts to explore Mars set in 2037. It revolves around the
crew of the Daedalus, which includes mission commander Ben Sawyer
(American), systems engineer Hana Seung (American), physician Amelie
Durand (French), roboticist Robert Foucault (Nigerian), geochemist
Javier Delgado (Spanish), and geologist Marta Kamen (Russian), who will
be the first people to set foot on Mars. As they engage in their
adventure, viewers are shown flashbacks of the characters preparing for
the mission from four years before lift off. Interview segments with
actual modern day experts are also incorporated into the fictional story
explaining how today's technology will be utilized or enhanced to make
such a mission feasible in the future.

In the first episode, as the Daedalus prepares to land on Mars a
critical system on the space ship malfunctions. Attempting to avert a
disaster, the mission commander is critically injured. While Commander
Sawyer's efforts get his crew's boots on the ground, they find
themselves 75 kilometers away from where automated rockets from Earth
had previously dropped supplies waiting for them. How will they survive
with limited resources and no easy way to get to their planned landing
site where all their vital supplies are stored? And how do they treat
Sawyer's serious injuries when the closest hospital is more than 200
million kilometers away? You'll have to start watching to find out!

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